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Hello! I hope you have a fabulous 2013! I appreciate your efforts to get good photos of the camellias! Mine are not so easy to get photos of, either. The Taiwan cherry is lovely. I was not familiar with it. I must get out to see what is beginning to bloom in my own garden. We hardly have a pause for winter, though we have had some freezing temperatures.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and for your comment. I am stunned to see a cherry blooming in your neck of the woods. That is wonderful. I am so envious. We won't have blooms on cherries for at least a month and a half. Although, where I used to work in Washington, there was a cherry that started flecking out individual blooms beginning in late November and kept this up through when it should be blooming in March. I love your camellias. Those Are blooming here in Oregon. Hope that you are having a great week.

Eleventh Commandment

“Thou shalt inherit the holy earth as a faithful steward, conserving its resources and productivity from generation to

generation. Thou shalt safeguard thy fields from soil erosion,

thy living waters from drying up, thy forests from desolation, and protect thy hills from overgrazing by thy herds, that thy descendants may have abundance forever. If any shall fail in

this stewardship of the land thy fruitful fields shall become sterile stony ground and wasting gullies, and thy descendants shall decrease and live in poverty or perish from off the face of the earth” (Lowdermilk, 1942).